{"id":1678,"date":"2007-03-22T18:38:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T22:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2007-03-22T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T22:43:12","slug":"a-stroll-on-the-danforth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/22\/a-stroll-on-the-danforth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stroll on the Danforth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_03.22.07\/city\/photos\/city_stroll.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the current lead city article in Eye Weekly about the dramatic topographic and social changes The Danforth experieces along its length.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Head east from where Bloor Street becomes The Danforth and one moment the pavement is soaring above the Don Valley in midair, the next it&#8217;s part of dense urban street. The change in topography is unmatched in Toronto. What&#8217;s most remarkable is how flat and straight the road is throughout these changes &#8212; it&#8217;s as if the road came first, and the Prince Edward Viaduct and Earth rose up to meet it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Danforth has been the hardest stretch of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153destination\u00e2\u20ac\u009d road in Toronto to cozy up to. It seems perpetually one lane too wide for walking and one too narrow for driving, and the trees are either stunted or nonexistent, so the summer sun is too hot and unrelenting, the winter wind too bitter and unbroken. At first glance, the retail strip between the Don and Pape is dominated by too many Paul Frank-underwear emporiums, fancy stationery shops and upscale knick-knack stores. It&#8217;s boring. How many kinds of oddly shaped vases does one family need? It&#8217;s also the best place in Toronto to be run over by a yummy mummy pushing a ridiculously oversized SUV stroller. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_03.22.07\/city\/news.php\">the full article<\/a> and see why it&#8217;s worth dodging those strollers for a visit and find out where on The Danforth you can have a <em>Great Gatsby<\/em> moment. Shawn&#8217;s Stroll column is now a monthly ambulatory outing through the psychogeography of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the current lead city article in Eye Weekly about the dramatic topographic and social changes The Danforth experieces along its length. 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